New renderer plugins

[edb]

Hello,

I haven't posted very often recently but I have making some new plugins that might be interesting/useful:

Renderer plugins for Moonray, LuxCore and Appleseed.
IQM (Interquake model)
Maybe USD (very early at the moment)
Some other things maybe.

I have gotten Moonray built by its build instructions, though there might be something wrong with the OpenImageIO library it linked to so I couldn't get the test scenes with textures to work, but the ones that have untextured materials do work, so for now I'm focusing on exporting scenes with untextured materials. Maybe by the time I have a renderer plugin to show I might manage to get textures to work.

[micheus]

I haven't posted very often recently but I have making some new plugins that might be interesting/useful:

Renderer plugins for Moonray, LuxCore and Appleseed.

Nice.

If you go with LuxCore, let dgud know. He already wrote to another coder in the past:
"When you are done with that I have an opencl port of luxrender for wings that needs some love "

[edb]

Nice.

If you go with LuxCore, let dgud know. He already wrote to another coder in the past:
"When you are done with that I have an opencl port of luxrender for wings that needs some love  "

Thanks, I'll ask dgud about it.

I'm starting with Moonray and Luxcore for now, followed by Appleseed when Moonray and Luxcore plugins are able to export renderable scenes.

Currently I'm implementing the material dialog boxes for them, I'll see how that goes.

[oort]

edb,

Thanks for taking on this task. I was not familiar with those render engines so I googled them. I am still a big fan of YafaRay but I haven't seen any updates from DavidBlucame since January 28, 2024. Still waiting for a first release of what he is/was working on.

Hopefully LuxCore and Appleseed are still being worked on. I checked release dates on the renderers you listed.
Latest release for Appleseed is September 21, 2019.
Latest release for LuxCore is December 25, 2021.
Latest release for Moonray is March 15, 2023.

The following video describes the three you list plus Cycles and Eevee for anyone else like me who hasn't kept up with the latest in rendering software...  Free Render Engines

I haven't been able to spend any time on Wings3D for a long time but I always check the forum. Looking for Glass, Caustics, and SSS (TheBounty fork of YafaRay) to match what YafaRay does. I will watch for something to test.

oort

[edb]

edb,

Thanks for taking on this task. I was not familiar with those render engines so I googled them. I am still a big fan of YafaRay but I haven't seen any updates from DavidBlucame since January 28, 2024. Still waiting for a first release of what he is/was working on.

Hopefully LuxCore and Appleseed are still being worked on. I checked release dates on the renderers you listed.
Latest release for Appleseed is September 21, 2019.
Latest release for LuxCore is December 25, 2021.
Latest release for Moonray is March 15, 2023.

The following video describes the three you list plus Cycles and Eevee for anyone else like me who hasn't kept up with the latest in rendering software...  Free Render Engines

I haven't been able to spend any time on Wings3D for a long time but I always check the forum. Looking for Glass, Caustics, and SSS (TheBounty fork of YafaRay) to match what YafaRay does. I will watch for something to test.

oort

Thanks oort,

My interest in making some new renderer plugins has been mostly since no one has made them yet and I wanting to expand the choice of options in wings. (It being brand new plugins means I can make something from scratch too)

For each renderer plugin, the materials will have "Basic" and "Advanced" style of editing, where advanced is directly adjusting the material values available, and basic is a simpler preset-like version.

I noticed Yafaray is under development and I think they are also maintaining the wings Yafaray plugin in parallel. I noticed they have web site issues for some time and I'm not sure from the github issue as to what is going on. Someone could probably ask them if they need a new web site for the project, though the issue mentions it doesn't seem they need one yet until something is fixed(?)

[oort]

edb,

More options is always a good thing.

It looks like Moonray is not available as something that a person can download and install without having to build it from the source files. I see that as a big downside for most users of Wings3D.

LuxCore looks impressive.

Appleseed looks most impressive to me and seems to support most of the features currently available in YafaRay plus SSS support. Global Illumination is also included. Based on what I have read since yesterday and the video I posted previously Appleseed would be the one I want most. I would be happy to see whichever you choose to do first.

Yes, the situation with YafaRay doesn't look good. One of DavidBlucame's post mentions "personal circumstances" delaying his work on YafaRay. Hopefully he is ok.

Thanks,
oort